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for the day before, as we. were employed in sounding, in order to cast anchor, 
some of them made us signs to come to a spot where we observed a long ridge of 
rocks; from whence I concluded that the profit they had gained by the shipwreck of 
the Portuguese India vessel, made them wish us to undergo the same fate. Finding 
afterwards, that the water was bad and brackish, we set sail again, and quitted this 
island. 
We now return to the Isle of France. 
7‘jvod •eni^ini.'v 
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